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T. D. McFARLANE.

REST.

APPLICATION man FEB. l7.'l920.

1,363,335. Patented Dec. 28, 1920;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REST.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 28, 1920.

Application filed February 17, 1920. Serial No. 359,441.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, T HOMAS DUNCAN Mob ARLANE, a subject of the King ofGreat Britain, a resident of the city of Ottawa,

facilitate securing the rest to a bed, chair,

table, bookcase or any suitable support so that a book or other articlemay be held in position, and when a book is so used it may beconveniently read while allowing the reader to rest in bed or in a chairduring the period oi reading, to facilitate adjusting the rest so thatitmay be utilized as a support for lasses, cups or the like, to providemeans whereby the rest can be adjusted and swung into positionrelatively to the reader or user or swung outwardly from a bed or chair,so'that it will not prevent the reader from lying down or getting out ofbed or ttrcm rising from the chair.

Further objects are to render the machine light and durable and capableof being secured to a suitable support with a minimum of time and labor,to, eliminate as far as practical any undue spring so that it will notbe necessary to adjust therest each time a different book or. article isplaced thereon, even although the weights of the several books orarticles may differ, and generally to simplify the device and render theseveral parts easily accessible for inspection and repair.

Other objects will be made clear as the specification.develops.

For a better understanding of my invention reference is made to theaccompanying drawings in which an embodiment of my invention isillustrated.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved rest, as seen whenattached to a bed.

' Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the rest, as seen when supported from abed or other suitable support with the arms of the rest arranged inalinement.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of the means for pivotally supporting therest from the arms.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged plan View of the clamping means.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

In the drawings; A represents a bed and B the improved rest. This restcomprises a plurality of arms 10 and 11 hinged at 12, so that the onearm is capable of being rotated relatively to the other through themajor arc of a circle. The arm 10 is hinged at 13 to the U-shapedclamping member 1 1, which is provided on that arm remote from the hinge13 with a tensioning screw 15.

The tensioning screw 15 carries a plate 16 which engages with a bearermember 17 of wood or other soft material which will not damage thesupport to which the rest is clamped, and a second bearing member 18 islocated within the clamp 14.

The clamping member 14 is designed to embrace a corner post of a bed,chair, arm

or back, table leg or the like so that the hearing member 18 engageswith the support and on tightening the tensioning screw 15 the bearingmember 17 will be forced into frictional engagement with the support andthus clamp the rest B in position.

This arm 11 is hingedly attached at 19 to the socket 20, which carries apin 21 having an orifice 22 therethrough adapted to frictionally engagewith a hinge pin 23 which passes through the hinges 240i the rest 25.The hinges 24 are frictionally held in position relatively to the pin 23by thumb screws 26 which are threaded through the hinge 24.

The hinges 24L and the hinge pin 23 have orifices 29 which register andthrough which the pin 30 is adapted to passand when the rest 25 is usedas a support for glasses and the like. the pins 30 will prevent anytendency of the rest rotating downwardly when stress is applied thereto.

, The rest 25 is provided at the lower edge with. a flange 27 which willsupport the lower edge of a book placed thereon thus preventing the bookslipping off. The pin 21 is capable of being rotated about itslongitudinal axis within the socket 20, and may be retained in anydesired position by a thumb screw 28 and thus the rest 25 may beadjusted to any angular position to suit the requirements of the user.

When the rest 25 is used as a support for a tray it is rotated intoahorizontal plane by loosening the set screw the pin 21 about itslongituc the set screw is then tightened i is passed through he orificesE29 in 2nd pin S33 and prevents t rotating around the hinge p' .Vhen therest is to be used, is positioned to engage with 2. e11

port and in the embodiment iilust braces the corner post of the bed asshown in Fig. l, whereupon the tlurnh screw 15 is tightened to bring thehearing me 1'? into "frictional engagement ii h the post, which is thusheld between the t we nJieniheJ-Js 17 and 18. The rest can .now heswung; into position with the arm .J; arranged in psi.- idiel relationto ti o s d (i the bed, and

' 1. position hi rm It may be necessary to adjust the rest slightly toproperly i'ocus tl e book to suit the requirements of the reader andened and the rest 25 lento l around hinges 24 and hinge pin 23 whereuponthe set screws 26 are tightened.

It may he "fort ier convenient to 1' the rest 25 into a. holder for Acups or the like, and to permit oi done, the thumb screw 28 wili he andthe pin 21. rotated to bring th into a, horizontal position, and theinserted in the orifices Xi trey continuing: glasses. on the rest so,and it wiil ,31 the same without any tendon rotating; about the hingepin 1., the rest wi new function as n sins The device may he constructedof 2' :zble material which will? strength and durability and warp ortwist, so that when he on the rest 25 and arranged there is no necessityfor res; rest to suit each book lecsuse the pri adjustment will besufiicient. In the embodiment illustrated,

SiiOV-Ji] n psir of bearing inci haying}; curvilinear inner it 'Wlli heunderstood these wiil be shaped to suit the support with whicl. they areto enwhich need not necessarily he a bed post, but any other article oifurniture giving adequate support to the rest can he used,

so that the hook rest so adopted for use on chairs, etc.

From the above description it will be seen that I he e invented a.restwhich may he utilized or o. nuinl'ier of purposes such as supportinga heel; when rmdinq, suppoit ing trays, or other articles, telephonestand, inusic stond. tie sever-oi ports oi the being simple inconstruction and not liaiiie to go out of repofr.

hen using the rest for books, etc, char-{tic .ds Hilly be ut'iirae i andpassed wound the i to engage the covers and so hoid the hoot: nposition.

the

shove constructio h rent enihodnnent -.1 o i' a r I intention within 1oscope of the chiiins, eons tructeu without scone thereot,

eons sh tion, a v gin carried by he est mid pins, :1 rest having hingesengaging the hinge pin, and pin means 1' ossing through the hinges andthe hinge pin.

it. rest oi. the .:iess described comprising an clamping member, anurn). hiijiged to the shunning member, a, second zirin hinged to t I,..LJ\1 said arm, a: socket hinged t the lost said arm, a, pin rototebiymounted in the socket, :1. rest, in 22115 tied by the pin r hingedlyfiilipj jOiii-llll the rest, ti o arms, socket pin and longitudinal axisof? the i Je ing in the some in Site: phii' e, the r. r eing designed tobe rotated about the pi sno also about one o its end in it piinctransverse to the piano oi: rotetion hex hereunto set my hand.

